I need to build an emoji, I was using

Char.toChars(0x1F1E6 - 0x41 + ‘A’.code).concatToString()

to get 🇦 emoji (and then build a country flag of two such letters). But now

toChars

marked deprecated. I checked out https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/04/kotlin-1-5-0-rc-released, and I can’t seem to find the replacement. What am I missing?

Why don't you just paste the emoji?

I guess he doesn't want to hardcode all countries' emojis

How is that above less hardcoded?

https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.text/to-chars.html doesn't say anything about deprecation, hmm.

int.toChar()

is definitely deprecated, but not

Char.toChars(codepoint)

It got deprecated recently but feels like a mistake as there is no new alternative in

1.5

@Suppress("DEPRECATION")

doesn't mean it's deprecated, it means there's no warnings if it uses deprecated functions (looks like

Int.toChar

is deprecated)

Ah, I got confused by the word and haven’t noticed that it’s

Suppress

😁